Posted on 12/04/2010 5:48:39 PM PST by moonshinner_09
The 200 robed and bearded men gathered at dusk on the market square, rolled out their prayer rugs and intoned Allah's praises as dismayed townspeople looked on.
It was Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month, and the group that calls itself "Invitation to Paradise" was mounting a defiant response to weeks of public protests against construction of a religious school to teach its austere, militant interpretation of Islam.
In Germany, where the racial crimes of the Nazis have bred extreme sensitivity toward the rights of minorities, such confrontations would until recently have been limited to the far-right margins. The weekly rallies in this city of 250,000 near the Dutch border these days look decidedly mainstream.
It's part of a trend seen across Europe: Spooked by what many see as a terrorism threat, ordinary people are becoming increasingly vocal in opposing radical Muslims. They are ditching traditions of tolerance and saying no to cultures that do not share their democratic values. Some lament the decline of multiculturalism - "Utterly failed," in the words of German Chancellor Angela Merkel - while others say Europe is defending its way of life against those who would destroy it.
In the Netherlands, anti-immigrant sentiment has risen steadily since the 2004 murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a Muslim fanatic. In elections this year, the anti-Islam "Freedom Party" of Geert Wilders emerged as the country's third-largest political force and is helping a conservative government keep campaign promises to ban the burqa, cut immigration and imprison illegal aliens.
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Better late than never. Nothing is worth the trouble Muslims create.
I wondered how long the Germans, and other European countries for that matter, were going to calmly stand by and watch this happening.........
...good!...Western culture must stand and defend itself...before it’s too late.
Do the Germans really want to repudiate the legacy of the Nazis? Then they should remember that the Nazis were enthusiastic allies of the anti-Semitic Islamists.
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I wondered how long the Germans, and other European countries for that matter, were going to calmly stand by and watch this happening.........”
I wonder about the US
Celibrate Diversity.
Diversity is our strength.
Really, really tragic development.
Each and everytime the Germans get out in front of the curve, as they tend to do, it spells Armageddon for them.
They forgot an important lesson ~ the Nazis got some of their worst "stuff" simply by looking back in time to a more barbaric age ~ and some places have simply not climbed out of that age in recent ages.
Their existing anti-Nazi codes can probably be used to eradicate Islam.
They forgot an important lesson ~ the Nazis got some of their worst "stuff" simply by looking back in time to a more barbaric age ~ and some places have simply not climbed out of that age in recent ages.
Their existing anti-Nazi codes can probably be used to eradicate Islam.
Hey, moron. When they started out, the Nazis were a small minority.
Rubbish. Recognition of rights must be reciprocal in a non-totalitarian society. Islam has forfeited its right to practice freely by refusing to recognize the right of others to do the same.
When Christians start building churches in Mecca with the support of the Saudi and Mecca local governments, as well as the Muslim religious leaders, then Muslims can be taken seriously when they make claims to the right to freely practice their religion.
Until then they can pound sand.
As is readily evident from the historical record, Islam and Western Civilization cannot peacefully co-exist within the same borders, and the people of the west have at least the right to prohibit the most provocative public acts of Muslim worship.
Sehr gut !!
Sehr gut !!
What does that have to do with anything?
While Arabs are Semites, the term anti-semitic means what it means, not what it should mean. And what it means is anti-Jewish, not anti-Arab.
Sorry.
Words and their definitions are not always logical.
Nice to hear some good news, finally, regarding opposition to the religion of pieces.
First, declare the religion a hate organization, and or cult. Then, anyone that will not disavow that organization, can be asked to pack up and leave.
Be nice, be civil, but it’s time for nations to protect their own cultures from the radical indoctrination of a hateful and vile organization that cowers behind the curtain of “religion”.
And that, in the Muslim World, Mein Kampf is still a best-seller.
If the Nazis had been effectively crushed while they were a minority, they would never have gained power and been able to commit all their crimes. The notion that a group is by definition virtuous and deserving of protection because it is small and/or unpopular is a remarkably stupid idea.
And I’m well aware they don’t really mean “minority” in the actual numerical sense of the term. They mean “designated protected ethnic or racial minority” even when the group in question is really a religious/ideological group with no necessary ethnic or racial component. Just an example of their fuzzy thinking.
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